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My new travel partner? Eason Jordan reports on his new website, Iraqslogger, that his team is in Baghdad looking for Jamil Hussein. They have not found him yet–which is newsworthy in itself–and get this: He has offered to pay for me to join the search in Iraq and accompany me: Who is Jamil Hussein? Michelle […]

“Who is Jamil Hussein?” is becoming the new “Who is John Galt?”–a blogospheric refrain that both summarizes and challenges MSM apathy about its questionable war reporting. Townhall’s Mary Katharine Ham is the latest to pose the question in the Washington Examiner. Historian and Army infantry officer Robert Bateman, using the latest AP scandal over its […]

The Associated Press controversy over its six burning Sunnis story is not just about AP. It’s a burning credibility crisis that stretches from Pallywood to the Fauxtography scandal and beyond. Milblogger Greyhawk takes on the Times’ Ed Wong and his reporting in Hurriya. Greyhawk zeroes in on this paragraph: From morning until afternoon, at least […]

***update: video – Jules Crittenden on Fox*** The controversy over the Associated Press’ coverage of the alleged burning of six burning Sunnis in Hurriya, Iraq last month continues–even if most of the media refuses to confront it. This morning, the New York Times’ Tom Zeller–one of the few on the case–follows up his blog coverage […]

***scroll for updates…NYTimes blogger Tom Zeller Jr weighs in…plus: bloggers note the significance of the capture of Mazer Al-Jubouri, aka the Baghdad Sniper, and his group…103pm Eastern…Curt has posted the AP’s non-response response…802pm Eastern update on the source list…see below…*** I’ve been following up with CENTCOM on the Associated Press/sketchy sources brouhaha. Just heard this […]

***scroll for updates…(fyi, my gmail is still down. if you are trying to reach me, use this temporary address: malkinblog-at-yahoo.com)…see below for AP tinfoil hat editorializing…plus, read Mary Katharine Ham’s very useful reconstruction of how the AP story moved and evolved on the wires…*** ***940pm Eastern update. This is really dishonest. Yahoo! is now featuring […]

The Associated (with terrorists) Press reported yesterday on a lobbying campaign to free its Iraqi-based photographer Bilal Hussein, who has been in U.S. military detention since April (a fact first reported not by the A(w/t)P, but here on this blog). Who is spearheading the Free Bilal lobbying campaign? Yup, the A(w/t)P: The U.S. military’s indefinite […]

Rep. Louise Slaughter: Water carrier for AP and security detainee Bilal Hussein The Associated (with terrorists) Press thinks it’s news that a Democrat congresswoman is recycling the suppressed-news organization’s talking points about Bilal Hussein, the AP photographer who was discovered by American troops in a Ramadi apartment with an alleged al Qaeda leader and a […]

Tom Curley: Head of the A(wt)P What do you do when you are a global news organization under fire for suppressing five-month-old news of the capture of one of your employees by American troops in a Ramadi apartment with an alleged al Qaeda leader and a weapons cache? You run to a sympathetic news organization […]

Still traveling and catching up on news/mail. The three Christians in Indonesia I blogged about last week were executed yesterday by firing squad. Indonesian blogger Stan liveblogged the day’s events. BBC coverage here. Context here and here and here. My initial post prompted much caterwauling from tone-deaf moonbat bloggers who accused me of hypocrisy for […]